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To continue on the theme of hierarchy, we’ll look at how you achieve it through caps and color.
Resources
- Using Small Caps and Text Figures on the Web, Dmitry Fadeyev
- Upping Your Type Game, Jessica Hische
- Color, Practical Typography
- WebAIM contrast checker - Free web-based color contrast tool
- Contrast - A macOS app for quick access to WCAG color contrast ratios
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seeing how we can establish
it through caps and color.
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First, let's talk about caps and
small cap characters.
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Think about an email or
text you receive that was an all caps.
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That probably felt like someone was
either declaring something important or
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shouting at you, right?
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Setting type in capital
letters can create emphasis,
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authority, or hierarchy in your design.
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If you overuse them or commit a hideous
crime of setting all your body copy in
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them, then legibility and
readability will seriously be compromised.
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